Allocation of landline telephones to directorates and central services: EPST equips its administration with permanent contact numbers

Tony Mwaba Kazadi, Minister of Primary, Secondary, and Technical Education (EPST), symbolically handed over several landline phones and official phone numbers to his office, the General Secretariat, the General Inspectorate, and the central directorates and services of his ministry. This ceremony took place at the Communication Management Directorate of the Ministry of EPST on Tuesday, October 10, 2023; ; The purpose of this allocation by the EPST is to provide the various central departments with official and permanent telephone numbers. In this first phase, the Minister’s Office, the General Secretariat, the General Inspectorate, DINACOPE, the Human Resources Directorate (DRH), the School Administration Directorate (DAS), and the National Directorate for the Construction, Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Management of School Infrastructure (DINAC) received these phones, each with an official number. "The DGC intends to organize briefing sessions with the individuals who will be responsible for the direct use of these landline phones in order to train them in the efficient management of this important work tool," explained Jean Jeef Mwanza Waz Wanyi, head of the DGC, to Minister Tony Mwaba. In his remarks, the head of the EPST clarified that this initiative originated from his ministry’s Communication Management Directorate to address certain administrative weaknesses in official communication within the administration or with partners and beneficiaries of EPST services. "We started from the fact that there is constant contact between the ministry’s various departments and the outside world. Very often, staff members give users or anyone visiting the ministry their personal phone numbers, which means that when a staff member leaves—including the Minister, the Secretary General, or a Director—the outside world continues to communicate with or contact the ministry using those private numbers. We wanted to put an end to this practice by distributing these telephone systems to all departments with permanent numbers, so that even if personnel change, the institutions remain and the numbers stay with the new staff members. That is what we have just done," the minister said with satisfaction. It should be noted that earlier that same Tuesday, the minister had closed the workshop of the General Inspectorate of the EPST and laid the cornerstone for the construction of the DGC administrative building. Moïse Dianyishayi